I haven't tried this on OS X so I don't know how easy it is to make it work, but something to keep in mind with bonded GigE setups is that it is generally difficult/not possible to get greater than a single GigE link speed for a single TCP transfer. So bonded links make sense to a server which would be serving out multiple connections at the same time, but usually doesn't make sense on the client side if that client is reading a single "stream" at a time. Since the original poster is looking for 25MB/sec/client, that shouldn't be a problem on the client side though.

JF

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Gordon Breckenridge gord@anthemfx.com wrote: > i second this, I am using NFS over a bonded pair of ethernets to host user > homes from an xserve, and it works great. > Much faster and more reliable then AFP ever was. ?And on OSX server setting > up shares as NFS mounts is super easy. > > On 2010-03-05, at 4:18 PM, J. J. Franzen wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Gordon Breckenridge wrote: > > Will you be running Server on the Mac Pro that is serving shared storage? > Client has file sharing, but it's not as robust as server. > > I second this. ?You really want to make sure you are using SL Server to do > the re-share, and also, DO NOT USE AFP. ?Period. ?Ever. ?I know I am > prejudiced, and AFP may have advantages over NFS that I am not aware of, but > it has been my experience that you will get much better performance and > reliability via NFS. ?I can't recommend NFS instead of AFP strongly enough > for a workflow like you are describing. > J^2 > __ > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss mailing list > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss@mailman.studiosysadmins.com > http://mailman.studiosysadmins.com/mailman/listinfo/studiosysadmins-discuss > > > __ > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss mailing list > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss@mailman.studiosysadmins.com > http://mailman.studiosysadmins.com/mailman/listinfo/studiosysadmins-discuss > >

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